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                                            <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">This software list is valid during the Winter 2008 semester. Note, this is a partial list.
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                                                <td>abiword</td>
                                                <td>AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor. The goal is to make AbiWord full-featured, and remain lean.</td>
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                                                <td>acroread8</td>
                                                <td>Acrobat Reader 8 for PDF files</td>
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                                                <td>aspectj</td>
                                                <td>AspectJ enables AOP programming in Java.</td>
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                                                <td>aspell</td>
                                                <td>GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can&nbsp;either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main&nbsp;feature is that it does a much better job of coming up with possible&nbsp;suggestions than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements over Ispell such as using shared memory for&nbsp;dictionaries and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more&nbsp;than one Aspell process is open at once.</td>
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                                                <td>cdrecord</td>
                                                <td>Cdrecord is an application for creating audio and data CDs. Cdrecord&nbsp;works with many different brands of CD recorders, fully supports&nbsp;multi-sessions and provides human-readable error messages.</td>
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                                                 <td>ctags</td>
                                                 <td>Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of C language objects found in&nbsp;C source and header files.&nbsp;The index makes it easy for text editors or other utilities to locate the indexed items.&nbsp;Ctags can also generate a cross reference file which lists information about the various objects found in a set of C language files in human readable form.&nbsp;Exuberant Ctags improves on ctags because it can find all types of C language tags, including macro definitions, enumerated values (values inside enum{...}), function and method definitions, enum/struct/union tags, external function prototypes, typedef names and variable declarations.&nbsp;Exuberant Ctags is far less likely to be fooled by code containing #if preprocessor conditional constructs than ctags.&nbsp;Exuberant ctags supports output of Emacs style TAGS files and can be used to print out a list of selected objects found in source files.</td>
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                                                 <td>curl</td>
                                                 <td>cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Dict servers, using any of the supported protocols. cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.</td>
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                                                 <td>cvs</td>
                                                 <td>CVS (Concurrent Version System) is a version control system that can record the history of your files (usually, but not always, source code). CVS only stores the differences between versions, instead of every version of every file you have ever created. CVS also keeps a log of who, when, and why changes occurred.</td>
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                                                 <td>ddd</td>
                                                 <td>The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular GUI for command-line debuggers like GDB, DBX, JDB, WDB, XDB, the Perl debugger, and the Python debugger. DDD allows you to view source texts and provides an interactive graphical data display, in which data structures are displayed as graphs. You can use your mouse to dereference pointers or view structure contents, which are updated every time the program stops. DDD can debug programs written in Ada, C, C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl, and Python. DDD provides machine-level debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, watchpoint, backtrace, and history editors; array plots; undo and redo; preferences and settings editors; program execution in the terminal emulation window, debugging on a remote host, an on-line manual, extensive help on the Motif user interface, and a command-line interface with full editing, history and completion capabilities.</td>
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                                                 <td>doxygen</td>
                                                 <td>Doxygen can generate an online class browser (in HTML) and/or a reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files.</td>
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                                                 <td>eclipse</td>
                                                 <td>Eclipse (3.1, 3.2, Europa) is an open-source extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.</td>
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                                                 <td>emacs</td>
                                                 <td>Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor.</td>
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                                                 <td>enscript</td>
                                                 <td>GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a&nbsp;file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and&nbsp;includes many options for customizing printouts.</td>
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                                                 <td>evolution</td>
                                                 <td>Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and communications tool.&nbsp;The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.</td>
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                                                 <td>exmh</td>
                                                 <td>exmh is an email user interface for the MH</td>
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                                                 <td>comsol (ex-femlab)</td>
                                                 <td>Comsol is a modeling package for the simulation of any physical process you can describe with partial differential equations</td>
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                                                 <td>firefox</td>
                                                 <td>Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.</td>
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                                                 <td>flex</td>
                                                 <td>The flex program generates scanners.&nbsp;Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text.&nbsp;Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output.&nbsp;The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable.&nbsp;The executable searches through its input for occurrences of the regular expressions.&nbsp;When a match is found, it executes the corresponding C code.&nbsp;Flex was designed to work with both Yacc and Bison, and is used by many programs as part of their build process.</td>
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                                                 <td>Fluent</td>
                                                 <td>Fluent dynamics modeling and evaluation tool.</td>
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                                                 <td>freeglut</td>
                                                 <td><p>freeglut is a completely open source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library with an OSI approved free software license. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, universally available and highly portable.</p>
            <p>freeglut allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and&nbsp;joystick functions.</p></td>
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                                                 <td>Gambit</td>
                                                 <td>Mesh manipulation tool; commonly used with Fluent.</td>
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                                                 <td>GATE</td>
                                                 <td>General Architecture for Text Engineering. Allows different Java-based NLP
plug-ins and other text processing related tasks.</td>
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                                                 <td>ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler)</td>
                                                 <td>HC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive
environment for the functional language Haskell. GHC supports the
entire Haskell 98 language plus a wide variety of extensions.</td>
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                                                 <td>gcc</td>
                                                 <td>The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection version 3.3.2.&nbsp;You'll need this package in order to compile C code.</td>
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                                                 <td>gcc-java</td>
                                                 <td>This package adds support for compiling Java(tm) programs and bytecode into native code.</td>
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                                                 <td>gedit</td>
                                                 <td>gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop.&nbsp;gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions.</td>
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                                                 <td>gimp</td>
                                                 <td>The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a powerful image composition and editing program, which can be extremely useful for creating logos and other graphics for webpages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.</td>
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                                                 <td>glade2</td>
                                                 <td>Glade is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and the GNOME GUI desktop. Glade can produce C source code. Support for C++, Ada95, Python, and Perl is also available, via external tools which process the XML interface description files output by GLADE.</td>
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                                                 <td>gnucash</td>
                                                 <td>GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register&nbsp;GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even&nbsp;currency trades. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to&nbsp;use, but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure&nbsp;balanced books.</td>
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                                                 <td>gnumeric</td>
                                                 <td>Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program for the GNOME GUI desktop environment.</td>
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                                                 <td>gnupg</td>
                                                 <td>GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and&nbsp;creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide).</td>
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                                                 <td>gnuplot</td>
                                                 <td>Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats.</td>
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                                                 <td>gv</td>
                                                 <td>gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents</td>
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                                                 <td>HUGS</td>
                                                 <td> Hugs 98 is a functional programming system based on Haskell 98, the
de facto standard for non-strict functional programming
languages. Hugs 98 provides an almost complete implementation of
Haskell 98.</td>
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                                                 <td>ImageMagick</td>
                                                 <td>ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed work in the original format or a different one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating thumbnail images, and more.</td>
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                                                 <td>Isabelle/HOL</td>
                                                 <td>Interactive proof assistant program for higher-order logics.</td>
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                                                 <td>j2sdk</td>
                                                 <td>Java 2 Platform</td>
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                                                 <td>k3b</td>
                                                 <td>K3B provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in all steps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quick start.</td>
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                                                 <td>kdepim</td>
                                                 <td>A PIM (Personal Information Manager) for KDE.</td>
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                                                 <td>lynx</td>
                                                 <td>Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed; Lynx starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays webpages.</td>
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                                                 <td>maple and xmaple</td>
                                                 <td>Solve mathematical and engineering problems</td>
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                                                 <td>matlab</td>
                                                 <td>a tool for doing numerical computations with matrices and vectors.</td>
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                                                 <td>mkisofs</td>
                                                 <td>The mkisofs program is used as a pre-mastering program; i.e., it generates the ISO9660 filesystem.&nbsp;Mkisofs takes a snapshot of a given directory tree and generates a binary image of the tree which will correspond to an ISO9660 filesystem when written to a block device.&nbsp;Mkisofs is used for writing CD-ROMs, and includes support for creating bootable El Torito CD-ROMs.</td>
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                                                 <td>mozilla</td>
                                                 <td>Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.</td>
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                                                 <td>mtools</td>
                                                 <td>Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk).</td>
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                                                 <td>mysql</td>
                                                 <td>an SQL-interpreting database client is available as-is; MySQL server can be
made available upon request and its approval (usually for students taking a supported course). If you are uncertain or to
request a server account and the database, please email to <a href="mailto:helpdesk@encs.concordia.ca">helpdesk</a> <br></td>
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                                                 <td>nano</td>
                                                 <td>GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.</td>
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                                                 <td>nasm</td>
                                                 <td>NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, using primarily the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax.</td>
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                                                 <td>ncftp</td>
                                                 <td>Ncftp is an improved FTP client. Ncftp's improvements include support for command line editing, command histories, recursive gets, automatic anonymous logins, and more.</td>
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                                                 <td>nmh</td>
                                                 <td>This is the (new) MH Mail Handling System, an update on the classic MH Mail Handling system</td>
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                                                 <td>octave</td>
                                                 <td>GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.</td>
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                                                 <td>OpenOffice</td>
                                                 <td>A multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.</td>
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                                                 <td>pan</td>
                                                 <td>Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasant to new and advanced users alike. It has all the standard newsreaders features and also supports offline newsreading, sophisticated filtering, multiple connections, yEnc decoding, and other extra features for power users and alt.binaries fans. It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval<br>
evaluations.</td>
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                                                 <td>patch</td>
                                                 <td>The patch program applies diff files to originals.&nbsp;The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file.&nbsp;Diff lists the changes made to the file.&nbsp;A person who has the original file can then&nbsp;use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file (patching the file).</td>
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                                                 <td>Pellet</td>
                                                 <td>OWL DL ontologies reasoner.</td>
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                                                 <td>perl</td>
                                                 <td>Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk&nbsp;and shell scripting.&nbsp;Perl is good at handling processes and files,&nbsp;and is especially good at handling text.&nbsp;Perl's hallmarks are&nbsp;practicality and efficiency.&nbsp;While it is used to do a lot of&nbsp;different things, Perl's most common applications are system&nbsp;administration utilities and web programming.&nbsp;A large proportion of&nbsp;the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl.&nbsp;You need the perl&nbsp;package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.</td>
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                                                 <td>php</td>
                                                 <td>PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.</td>
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                                                 <td>pine</td>
                                                 <td>A Program for Internet News &amp; Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages.</td>
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                                                 <td>planner</td>
                                                 <td>Planner is a visual project management application which allows users to manage several aspects of a project, including schedule tracking using Gantt charts.</td>
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                                                 <td>postgresql</td>
                                                 <td>A highly-scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database
management system. 'psql' client is available; for the server account (usually for a supported course) a request should be made,
through <a href="mailto:helpdesk@encs.concordia.ca">helpdesk</a></td>
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                                                 <td>ProofGeneral</td>
                                                 <td>An Emacs-based interface to Isabelle/HOL.</td>
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                                                 <td>Protege</td>
                                                 <td>Protege Ontology Development Tool.</td>
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                                                 <td>psgml</td>
                                                 <td>Emacs is an advanced and extensible editor. An Emacs major mode customizes Emacs for editing particular types of text documents. PSGML is a major mode for SGML (a markup language) documents.&nbsp;PSGML provides several functionalities for editing SGML documents: indentation according to element nesting depth and identification of structural errors (but it is not a validating SGML parser); menus and commands for inserting tags with only the contextually valid tags; attribute values can be edited in a separate window with information about types and defaults; structure based editing includes movement and killing; and also several commands for folding editing.</td>
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                                                 <td>python</td>
                                                 <td>Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC).</td>
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                                                 <td>qt</td>
                                                 <td>Qt is a GUI software toolkit which simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System.</td>
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                                                 <td>svn</td>
                                                 <td>Subversion client program to checkout / maintain remote SVN repositories.</td>
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                                                 <td>SWI Prolog</td>
                                                 <td> SWI-Prolog offers a comprehensive Free Software Prolog environment,
licensed under the Lesser GNU Public License. Together with its
graphics toolkit XPCE, its development started in 1987 and has been
driven by the needs for real-world applications. These days
SWI-Prolog is widely used in research and education as well as for
commercial applications.</td>
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                                                 <td>tcl/tk</td>
                                                 <td>The Tool Command Language and the Tool Kit are a versatile scripting language and a graphical interface development tool, respectively.</td>
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                                                 <td>Tomcat</td>
                                                 <td>The JSP and Servlet container.</td>
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                                                 <td>thunderbird</td>
                                                 <td>Thunderbird is a free, open-source and cross-platform mail client based on the Mozilla codebase.&nbsp;It is a robust and easy to use client, similar to competing products like Outlook Express, but with some major advantages such as junk mail classification.<br></td>
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                                                 <td>wxGTK</td>
                                                 <td>An easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications on multiple platforms.</td>
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                                                 <td>xgraph</td>
                                                 <td>General purpose 2-D plotter</td>
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                                                 <td>xmaple</td>
                                                 <td>X gaphical interface to maple</td>
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                                                 <td>xmms</td>
                                                 <td>X MultiMedia System is a sound player written from scratch. Since it uses the WinAmp GUI, it can use WinAmp skins. It can play mp3s, mods, s3ms, and other formats. It now has support for input, output, general, and visualization plugins.</td>
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                                                 <td>xv</td>
                                                 <td>An interactive image manipulation program for the X Window System<br></td>
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